Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever one of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's nonviolent civil rights drives is met by white nonviolence, the result is something like driving a tack into a marshmallow: there is very little impact. That was what happened last week in Montgomery...
...calls for moderation, none was more remarkable than that issued by the 2,500-member Mississippi Economic Council, the state's foremost businessmen's organization. The council issued a statement urging Mississippians to accept and "adjust to the impact" of the new civil rights law. That law, it said, "cannot be ignored and should not be unlawfully defied." The statement demanded that "registration and voting laws should be fairly and impartially administered...
...TOURISM. The biggest public impact will be caused by Johnson's proposal to cut the amount of duty-free goods that U.S. tourists may bring home from $100 at wholesale value to $50 at retail value. Whisky, rugs, custom-made suits and other goods, which can now be shipped home as part of a tourist's duty-free allotment, henceforth will be taxed regardless of whether the tourist has spent his allotment. Projected dollar savings: about $100 million a year...
...INTEREST RATES. The strongest business impact will come as a result of Johnson's order that banks and other lenders will have to pay a tax of 1% to 2.75% on their long-term loans to foreign borrowers. This order will be backed up by the Government pressure on bankers to reduce their short-term foreign loans. Expected savings: more than $1 billion a year...
...uneasy silence on the national contest. But the silence was deceptive. All fall long, members scrutinized the national campaign and local campaigns. They collected newspaper reports, established local contacts, and collected a wealth of information concerning Goldwater's tactics, the national committee's relation with local organizations, and the impact of the Presidential campaign on local races...